Heavy Fighting Between Syrian Government Forces And Rebels Reported Near The Israeli Controlled Part Of The Golan Heights

Israel On Alert As Syrians Fight At Border -- New York Times

JERUSALEM — Rebels fighting the Syrian government seized the only border crossing along the Israeli-Syrian cease-fire line in the Golan Heights on Thursday, according to the Israeli military and rebel groups, forcing the United Nations peacekeeping soldiers who patrol the crossing to vacate it and bringing the Syrian conflict ever closer to Israeli-held territory.

Israeli forces were placed on alert along the frontier as the violence of the Syrian civil war threatened to spill over.

The rebel takeover of the border crossing, Quneitra, lasted for several hours. Later in the day Syrian state news media reported government forces had routed the insurgents and established control. Clashes in the area raged through much of the day.